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Montreal is hosting the 4th annual National Black Canadians Summit
Starting Friday, the event highlights what it calls the contributions and excellence of Black people who are shaping Canada's future. We speak with the artistic director of Montreal's Black Theatre Workshop, Dian Marie Bridge, who will be leading a roundtable on the role of arts within culture.
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All in a Weekend Cookbook Club members spice up their lives with My Thali
Julie Lavertue and Stephanie Martin stepped a little out of their comfort zones to try out the recipes in chef Joe Thottungal's award-winning cookbook My Thali. The recipes are mostly from the southern Indian regions and involved a lot of different spices and ingredients such as a variety of lentils.
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All in a Weekend Cookbook Club weighs in on Imad's Syrian Kitchen
CBC's Sonali Karnick speaks with listeners Tiffany Lee-Wo and Bertha Small about their experience preparing classic Syrian cuisine using Imad's Syrian Kitchen, a cookbook by Imad Alarnab. They share insights into the new flavours they've discovered through the recipes.
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Montreal Critics' Week presents its inaugural edition
Montreal Critics' Week, a new film festival, debuts in Montreal on Jan. 13. We speak with co-founder Ariel Esteban Cayer and filmmaker Melanie Shatzky whose documentary will be screened on opening night. Screenings are at the Cinemathèque Québecoise and Cinéma Moderne.
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Voting is open for the annual Quebec Science top 10 discoveries
The magazine Quebec Science is asking you to vote on the top scientific discovery of 2024 in the province. We talk with the editor in chief, Marine Corniou, about some of the research projects in their annual juried competition and some of the areas of interest.
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Here's what Montreal chef David Ferguson cooks for Santa on Christmas
Montreal chef David Ferguson talks about what he cooks for Santa Claus, that's right - Santa - as his personal chef one day a year. He also read us a bit of the short story he wrote about his fantasy job.
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Torill Kove on the Oscars shortlist and her latest animated film Maybe Elephants
Oscar-winning Montreal filmmaker Torill Kove has been shortlisted for another Academy Award. It's for her animated NFB short Maybe Elephants, which is based on a real-life story of her Norwegian family moving to Nairobi. We speak with her about the possibility of another Oscar nomination and the story behind this film.
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Christmas show brings together 3 generations of artists from a Quebec family
Natalie Choquette, her daughter Florence K, who is also a singer and host of CBC's C'est Formidable, are part of a Christmas show that features three generations of talented women, including Choquette's granddaughter, Alice Cyr.
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As part of a study, these 4 Quebec seniors climbed to the base camp of Mount Everest
Eléonor Riesco, a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke's physical activity sciences faculty, climbed alongside four women between ages of 66 and 75 to see how they handled the challenge of getting to the base camp of Mount Everest.
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Oka National Park hosts 2nd edition of Indigenous Winter Market
Véronique Vincent, the tourism project manager for Kanehsatà:ke Tourism, the organizer behind the event, says the market is a good way to "take leadership" of the community's tourism development.